Music Review - Be As You Are by Kenny Chesney

If the you love Jimmy Buffett, you will love this album.
This is the first country music album I've ever purchased. Being an almost-30 Southern male, that says something. By pure chance, especially for someone who usually runs from "country" music, I saw Kenny Chesney's acoustical performance on TV of several songs on this album, and the Jimmy Buffett similarities in his songs was immediately obvious. This is not "country" music. It's "island" music through and through. Kenny talked about spending time in the islands on his boat and writing these songs about the people he's met while in the Caribbean. Simply put, if the you love Jimmy Buffett, you will love this album. By that I don't mean the two or three Jimmy Buffett songs that the radio stations play. I mean the "real" Buffett music. Many artists try to recreate the magic of Jimmy Buffet's work but never come close. Kenny Chesney has done it. His music is honest, true, transporting, and played with a heart that is almost non-existent from musical artists today. To really get a feel for the album listen to the online samples for "Island Boy", "Somewhere in the Sun", and "Sherry's Living in Paradise".

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